Chances (Warner Bros.) (1931)

STORY —HIS NAME IS FAMOUS! Hell-bent for nowhere and making the most of every minute. Girls! Life! Fun! Laughter! Trying to drown his love for a girl he couldn’t have! DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS,= Devil-may-care cannoneer. His first starring role — greater than “Dawn Patrol.” ROSE HOBART — ANTHONY BUSHELL HOLMES HERBERT MARY FORBES A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE HIT , -NOW PLAYING Cut No. 3 Cut 4oc Mat roc “Chances” Author Won Light-| “Chances” Presents Young weight Boxing Event Fairbanks In Best Role (Current Reader) “Chances,” the First war romance now at the ......... Theatre, the initial starring vehicle for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., gives him the best role of his brilliant career. He plays the part of a British lieutenant in the World War. The complications arise on account of his love for the girl who is engaged to his brother. The play is an adaptation of the novel of A. Hamilton Gibbs. Rose Hobart plays the lead. Anthony Bushell is the brother. Alan Dwan directed. (Advance Reader) A. Hamilton Gibbs, who wrote the novel “Chances,” an adaptation of which comes to the TheaSane ever< next as a First National picture starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., represented Oxford against Cambridge in 1908 and won the lightweight boxing event. He also rowed on the Oxford crew. ‘Chances,” a thrilling war romance, features Rose Hobart and Anthony Bushell. Alan Dwan directed. National BUSINESS SIDE OF FILMS INTERESTS YOUNG DOUG (Advance Reader) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., whose initial starring vehicle in “Chances,” the First National war romance which comes to the Theatre next, says that he means at some future time to lay aside acting for the business phases of the industry. He wants to write, direct and produce pictures. He is the most versatile of stars as well as one of the youngest. “Chances” is an adaptation of the novel by A. Hamilton Gibbs. Those featured are Rose Hobart and Anthony Bushell. Alan Dwan directed. Husband Of Beryl Mercer Major In War Romance (Advance Reader) Holmes Herbert, who plays the part of $Major~ Bradford in “Chances,” the First National war romance starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., which comes to the .....:..... Theatre next is the husband of Beryl Mercer, famous on the London and New York stage and on the screen. Mr. Holmes has been leading man for many stage celebrities. Featured in “Chances” are Rose Hobart and Anthony Bushell. Alan Dwan directed, Young Fairbanks Goes Over The Top As Star In Drama “Chances” (Biography, May 15, 1931) “Chances” the First National war romance now at the Theatre is the initial starring vehicle of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who in a very few years has won for himself an enviable reputation, based wholly upon merit. Son of Douglas Fairbanks and Beth Sully, he was born in New York City on December ninth, 1907, at the time when his father was a young actor of rising popularity on the metropolitan stage, with the movies still in the offing. Young Douglas was educated by private tutors and in schools of New York, London, Paris, Pasadena and Los Angeles. Among his studies were painting and sculpture in which he was trained for three years in Paris, and which he still pursues for pleasure. He plays the piano and sings, boxes, wrestles, fences, swims and has made some track records, His poems, illustrated by himself, are about to come out in book form. He French and | Opposite Doug, Jr. | at 5¢ 0.14 Cut 15¢ ut =n Rose Hobart pl Spanish fluently. He wrote the titles sos eee = : Baas the girl both brothers love in for several of his father’s pictures “Ch a5 h Fi ee ] and did the posters for “Reaching Gates the rst ationa for bhoc Moon” War Romance starring Doug Fairbanks, Jr., now at the He was an extra in several picT heatre. tures before assuming his first role in “Stephen Steps Out.” His pictures includes “A Texas Steer,” “Is Zat. So,” “Stella Dallas,” “The Barker,” “A Woman of Affairs,” “The Toilers,’ “The Brass Band,” “The Power of the Press,” “The Careless Age,” “Fast Liffey’ “Our Modern Maidens,” “Jazz Age,” “Party Girl,” “The Forward Pass,” “Loose Ankles,’”’ “Way of All Men,” “Dance Hall,’ “Dawn Patrol,” “Little Accident,” “One Night at Susie’s,” “Outward Bound,” “Uittle Caesar” and “Chances,” English Of England Used In Fairbanks’ World War Romance (Current Story) “Chances,” the First National war romance starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., now at the Theatre, is an adaptation of the novel of the celebrated A. Hamilton Gibbs. It has to do with the adventures of Beside his sereen work Mr. Fair-|two British soldier-brothers, who banks has appeared in California|love the same girl, on the legitimate stage in “Romeo| The dialogue must necessarily and Juliet,’ “Young Woodley,” “Saturday’s Children” and _ others. His ambition is to play Napoleon’s son in Rostand’s “L’Aiglon.” On June third, 1929 he married Joan Crawford, after a two years’ contain the English of England. To make the conversation authentic, First National secured the services of Captain J. S. Scott, who saw active service during the World War. “Chances” will be as acceptable to engagement. They appeared on the| British audiences as though the picscreen together in “Our Modern|ture had been filmed in Merrie EngMaidens.” The star of “Chances” | land. The thrilling romance is the first starring vehicle of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. He is supported by Rose Hobart, Anthony Bushell, Holmes Herbert, is six feet one inch in height, weighs one hundred and _ seventyfive pounds and has blue eyes and blonde hair. “Chances” is directed by Alan Dwan. Rose Hobart plays the lead. A. Gibbs, Who Wrote “Chances,” Major In The British Army (Biography, May 15, 1931) A Hamilton Gibbs who wrote “Chances” the novel from which the First National picture starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and now at the HIS SUPREME Se as Theatre, is adapted — thousand though born and educated in EngYesterday, laughed, land is now a resident of Middlehearts cr1ie@ boro, Massachusetts. : Mr. Gibbs was born in London on March 9th, 1888. He received his education at College de St. Malo in France and at St. John’s College, Oxford. He came to the Unite States in 1912, and two years later enlisted as trooper in the 9th Lancers of the British Army. In 1915 he was put in command of a unit of the Royal Field Artillery and fought in France, Egypt and Serbia. ! formance of the yea: At the end of the war he was honH orably discharged with the rank of S major, and decorated with the HOLME’ FO! British Military Cross. MA In 1919 Mr. Gibbs married JeanAnd Doug ae nette Phillips of Boston, Massachudged Star fledgs setts. am A. Hamilton Gibbs is the author of “The Complete Oxford Man,” “Cheadle and Son,’ “Rowlandson’s Oxford,” “The Hour of Conflict,” “The Persistent Lovers,” “Gunfodder,” “Soundings,” “Labels,” ‘“Harness” and Chances.” The latter published in 1930. Mr. Gibbs represented Oxford against Cambridge and won the light-weight boxing event in 1908. He also rowed on the college crew. NOW SHOWING ZA = <a WARNER A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE Cut No.2 Cut goc Mat roc Lingo Of The Tommies Heard In World War Romance “Chances” Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Coming To Strand In His First Star Role In First National World War Drama. (Advance Story) “Chances,” the First National wartime romance, which marks the initial starring vehicle of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and which comes to the Theatre next, is correct in every detail. The sensational battle sequences were supervised by an officer of the British army who served in France during the World War. Costumes are the result of intensive research, as are all military phases. One interesting feature of “Chances” is the flawlessness of the dialogue. The story of “Chances,” which is an adaptation of the novel of A. Hamilton Gibbs, retired from the English army with the rank of major is laid in London, the countryside of England and on the Western Front. The characters are all English, and the action takes place in a British sector. English is continually changing and it was necessary that the dialogue be that which was actually in use during the war. This item has been carefully prepared. Players as well as the director and technical advisers combed it for flaws. “Chances” portrays the sensational romance of two soldier-brothers who become temporarily estranged because of their love for the same girl. Rose Hobart plays the girl and Anthony Bushell the ill-fated brother. Alan Dwan directed. Creator of Bairnsfather Hero Here In “Chances” (Current Reader) One of the important members cf the cast supporting Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in his first First National starring vehicle, “Chances,” which is now at the Theatre, is Harry Allen, noted English stage star, who created the role of Old Bill in “The Better ’Ole” on the London stage and then played it for two years in New York. He has been in pictures the past several years and hopes to do Old Bill on the talking screen. “Chances,” an adaptation of the A. Hamilton Gibbs novel, was directed by Alan Dwan. ACHIEVEMENT DOUG FAIRBANKS ADVANCE PRICES NO IN Page Nine